ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,741, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Generation of the digital fingerprints library with hierarchical structure" was invented by Nickolay Berko (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating a digital fingerprint library storing data fingerprints with hierarchical security classification levels. The digital fingerprint library is updated when new fingerprints are presented for inclusion in the library. When a new fingerprint matches a fingerprint in the library, the library'...